ITV This Morning viewers mortified by cruise ship guest's comments

Lauren Carrick and Joseph Harrison appeared on This Morning (Image: This Morning/ITV)

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Lauren was in tears as Joseph admitted they had had a "rubbish" time isolating in their room and were unable to get any fresh air.

The couple said there were limited rooms with balconies and any rooms with outdoor space had been allocated to smokers.

The pair said there was no presence of the deadly coronavirus on the ship and it had been a "clean ship" since April 19.

They confirmed they would soon be allowed to get off the ship.

But fans were stunned when Lauren described time on the ship being "hell."

The couple branded the ship "hostile" and said: "It's quite a hostile environment on the ship because everyone's in each other's faces all the time, people are just getting angry. It's not a very nice place to be at the moment."

Many viewers took to Twitter to share their shock at some of the phrases which had been used.

One tweeted: "@thismorning the guests stuck on a cruise ship, had my sympathies, until the mild racism. Female guest says “lots of Indians on board, we feel uncomfortable!” Embarrassing. #thismorning."

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A second wrote: "#ThisMorning So the lady on the cruise ships casually slips in a bit of racism and nothing is said."

And another said: "The fact that @thismorning let that casual racism slide says a lot.... id expect @Schofe to have picked that one up."

Lauren Carrick said in a statement to the Mirror Online: "Following the interview from This Morning on ITV I would like to express my deepest apologies for my comments made on live TV. They have unfortunately been taken in the wrong context. We are not racist people. We have friends of all ethnicities.

"We also work for one of the most culturally diverse companies in the world. ‘Celebrity Cruises’ currently employ people from 65 different nations across the world. I have said from day one the amount of respect I have for the working crew.

"On This Morning, I was purely trying to express that the ship I am currently on is becoming full of men, regardless of their nationality or ethnicity. There has been an increased sense of vulnerability to myself and other female crew members on the ship, due to being stared at more than usual.

"Once again I apologise for the upset that this has caused, and I hope that you all can understand during these unprecedented times."

A spokesperson for Celebrity Cruises told the Mirror Online: "We deeply value the diversity of our crew – from over 60 countries and cultures around the world – and take our responsibility to foster a safe and welcoming environment onboard very seriously, regardless of where they are from."